Matching Food & Wine July update

Win a KitchenAid Artisan Stand Mixer with a Shave Ice attachment

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Having signed up to Eat This Drink That some of you may be a bit baffled at this reference to Matching Food & Wine so forgive me, old timers, if I recap.

This is the regular free update on what I posted on my website matchingfoodandwine.com last month and news of our latest fantastic competition.

The rest of the emails you’ll get will be headed Eat This, Drink That and you won’t get them all if you’re not a paid subscriber. Sorry, but a gal’s got to make a living and it helps to keep the website, which people tend to find incredibly useful for winepairing advice, free for you all to access. 

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Anyway enough of this relentless self-promotion - on to the stuff you want to hear about …

Win a KitchenAid Artisan Stand Mixer with a Shave Ice attachment

We really do have an incredible prize for you this month! A fabulous KitchenAid 4.8L Artisan Stand Mixer plus the clever new Shave Ice Attachment to enable you to make fancy shaved ice at home

So basically it will not only look divinely beautiful on your kitchen worktop and do everything KitchenAid Stand Mixers are famous for, such as whipping, beating and kneading, but you will be able to make shaved ice for show-off desserts and drinks such as granitas and margaritas.

If you want to be in with a chance of winning click here. (UK-based entries only I’m afraid)

Last month’s top wine pairings

Madeira and French onion soup (sort of)
It’s not every month you get to go to a three Michelin-starred restaurant so  one of my matches of the week HAD to be this pairing of a 1999 sercial madeira with ‘gratinated onion’ (basically a deconstructed French onion soup) at Le Cinq in Paris

Camembert-style cheese and amphora aged Bacchus
A top cheese and sparkling wine pairing I discovered during English Wine Week

Sweetbreads with mushrooms and Dog Point pinot noir
Which goes to prove New Zealand pinot noir can be as much of a star as burgundy

Smoked eel and alcohol-free lager
Just because a drink doesn’t contain alcohol doesn’t mean it can’t make a great match. 

Recipes you might want to make

Breadcrumbed tomatoes baked in cream with fried chicken
From Claire Thomson’s new book Tomato

Charred tomatoes with cool yoghurt, pomegranate molasses and herbs
More tomatoes, this time from Helen Graves’ cracking barbecue book Live Fire

Gill Meller’s Raised Pork, Chicken and Parsley pie
A great centrepiece for a posh picnic from his new book Outside

You can read Essex Eating’s rumbustious review of Helen and Gill’s books here

In season

There are pairings for all kinds of seasonal ingredients in the archives including

What wine to drink with cherry desserts

Who doesn’t love a cherry pie?

My top wine pairings with strawberries
What to drink during the Wimbledon final this weekend

10 great wine pairings with salmon
Always one of the most popular posts on the site

The best wines to pair with crab 
Such a lovely summer treat . . . 

And of course the best food pairings for rosé

Discover the Abruzzo

If your experience of Italy’s Abruzzo region to date is cheap-as-chips Montepulciano d’Abruzzo this pair of wines should make you see its wines in a different light

Anyway enjoy the sunny week ahead and look out for tomorrow’s Friday 5!

Fiona